What is an embedded system? Can Mobile be considered as an embedded product?

Question

What is mean by embedded system?

If a system/machine or product which we are making is for multiple purposes, then can we consider it as an embedded system? Or is it tha

Answer 1

Embedded system are devices that do some specific job not like our laptops which can play music, click pictures and format documents. They are devices like water filter , washing machines, vending machine etc. They are programmed for some specific work and they do that work in a super loop depending on the user input.Like the vending machine always perform same thing when you opt for coffee in it with the help of button provided in it.

So in that way mobile phone is not an embedded system because it has no super loop and it can do various general purpose things just like a computer.

An embedded system has memory constrain, timing constrain and they do things in limited space.